Why Does Business Need 12 Weeks to Make Submission
Wednesday, 17 December 2003, 8:37 am
Press Release: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Why Does Business Need More Than 12 Weeks to Prepare a
Submission?
It may be because they are taking long
holidays that the Employers and Manufacturers Association
(Northern) doesn’t have time to prepare submissions on the
Employment Relations Law Reform Bill, Council of Trade
Unions president Ross Wilson said today.
“It is a bit
rich that business organisations are complaining that they
will need more than the 12 weeks allowed for preparation of
submissions on the Bill,” he said.
“Even assuming they
take three weeks holidays in addition to the Christmas-New
year period there would have been at least eight weeks
within which to prepare a submission.
“The CTU has
already convened two meetings of unions to discuss the Bill
and we will complete the work in late January and early
February,” Ross Wilson said.
“Perhaps the answer is that
these business leaders have five or six week’s holiday,” he
said. “But I think the reality is that this is just part of
their campaign against the Bill.
“Any competent
industrial relations practitioner could analyse and prepare
a submission on this Bill in a day or so,” Ross Wilson said.
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